The APPG would like to introduce you to a little known, little researched, and little understood topic: maternal morbidity. The definition is disputed, but the term roughly means women’s illnesses and injuries related to pregnancy and childbirth. It leaves 10–20 million women and girls every year with long-term physical, psychological, social and economic problems. Many women are abandoned, ostracised and alone. The APPG held hearings into maternal morbidity on 8–9 December 2008, in response to members’ quest for information, on this often neglected subject.
Better Off Dead? A report on maternal morbidity (2009)
